Damien Hallsworth

As a kid I remember the modem would scream when you got online but now i have to do that myself

Don’t think I’ll ever get over the fact Dominic Cummings wasn’t forced to apologise/resign over breaking lockdown rules last year. I think about the invisible consequences of that pretty much every day.

This is what happens when your entire media apparatus treats white supremacy as an idea to be debated rather than a movement to be defeated.

if only there were historical precedent for fascists attacking a government building and blaming it on far-left agitators. we're flying blind here

UK’s infection rate currently 133.7 per 100,000, higher than EU ( 77.2) and USA (96.9). Criminal mismanagement of trace system, which Johnson farmed out to City donor friends rather than experts. Dido Harding; can I respectfully ask you to fuck off?

Grim result (one of many) of the total lack of social diversity in our government: the UK's vibrant nightlife industry is being hung out to dry because most politicians couldn't give two shits about it as the closest they've ever come to a club was their Oxbridge college 'bop'.

Matt Hancock couldn’t track and trace his own arse.

I can't believe how easy the culture wars are for the right wing press, make a non-issue, make the BBC respond, and then claim victory/outrage as appropriate.

Hope everyone is enjoying their Last Night of the Proms culture war. Utterly fucking irrelevant brain-sapping dogshit, pursued by people who can't even aspire to mediocrity.

You can only get COVID in the Covide region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling death flu.

Imagine a country where a politician’s think tank calls for abolition of a major public health body, it gets broken up during a pandemic, its replacement is established in a few days, and the politician’s wife, with no public health experience, is appointed to run it. That’s us.

In Britain fiasco follows fiasco. Bungled A level results. Momumental mishandling of Covid. Vast cost over-runs and delays on Crossrail and HS2. Brexit and preparations for Brexit. A deadly alchemy of hyper-centralisation with hollowed out centre and an ignorant ideological right

the best scientists in the world are gonna make a vaccine for this virus and some guy who failed high school algebra will be like “i’m not taking that shit bro it’s microchipped”

29 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee posted the first ever web page. This is it https://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/News/9201.html …